• Flare Devils, original mixed media painting of big red blooms by Jules Smith
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of red blooms over sky blue and sunshine yellow
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of a red bloom with its dark centre and scratched white lines
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of the handwritten line The beauties are blowing up the party
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of the blue, green and yellow crackle texture
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of red heart shaped petals
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of printed layers in blue and yellow with a flash of red
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of red petals and green leaf shapes
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, close-up of red blooms over the blue and green printed ground
  • Flare Devils, Little Wild Things no. 7, original botanical mixed media painting by Jules Smith, the complete painting, view 2
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Flare Devils

Flare Devils

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Flare Devils
Little Wild Things, Collection No. 7

The seventh painting in my Little Wild Things collection, Flare Devils is a riot of big red blooms that have very clearly turned up to cause trouble.

Loose, generous petals in scarlet and deep crimson tumble across the paper, each with a dark, smudgy centre and fine scratched white lines tracing its edges. Behind them, printed layers of sky blue and sunshine yellow shimmer with texture, while flashes of green umbels and leaf shapes peek through the gaps.

Real botanical forms are printed into the underlying layers, then worked over with acrylic, pencil and charcoal. The printed marks keep the fine detail of the real plants, while loose, confident brushwork gives the blooms their swagger and movement.

The painting has a bold, rowdy feel, like the guests who arrive late, take over the dance floor and somehow make the whole evening better.

Running up the right hand edge, written in a small hand, is the line of prose:

“The beauties are blowing up the party.”

Tucked along the edge, the phrase is there to be found rather than announced. A cheeky reminder that every good party needs someone to liven it up.

Flare Devils is the seventh of eight one-of-a-kind original paintings in my Little Wild Things collection, each exploring the character, colour and unexpected beauty of the natural world.

Mixed media: original botanical printing, acrylic, pencil and charcoal
Paper: 300gsm watercolour paper
Size: 5 × 7 inches (13 × 18 cm)
Edition: 1 of 1, original artwork
Presentation: unmounted and unframed, supplied as is
Details: titled, signed and dated on the reverse

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